The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

High above the windswept Ross Ice Shelf, a helium balloon the size of a football stadium drifts in the polar twilight. Slung ...

The archipelago may not hold major strategic weight in the Indo-Pacific, but it offers a fascinating case study of ...

Scientists previously estimated that the total emperor penguin population declined about 10% across all of Antarctica over ...

The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released June 10.

From the financial powerhouse of the Cayman Islands to the windswept wildlife sanctuary of South Georgia, you might have ...

The estimated population of 16 penguin colonies — visible in satellite photos taken between 2009 and 2024 — declined 22% ...

The TAAF’s recent integration as a component of France’s Indo-Pacific strategy marks a new chapter in the atypical ...

Using satellite images to survey colonies across the Antarctic Peninsula, the Weddell Sea and the Bellingshausen Sea, BAS ...

Scientists studying the impact of retreating sea ice on emperor penguins in Antarctica say the bird populations have fallen 22%, far worse than they initially thought, and the species could approach ...

But with global heating and climate change wreaking havoc on the ice caps of Antarctica, researchers are looking to a new map of the south polar region to better map global warming changes and ...